Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-08-18
John A. Walker went to Atwood Mon

Noah Zeigler was up from Oakley Sun
day.
A. C. Lombard was at Atwood last
week.
DR.. Taylor was in from Otterbourne
Monday.
Emmett Fraze is over this week from
Burlington, Colo.
DR.. C. II. Martin returned Saturday
from DeKalb, Mo.
Rev. W. w. Armstrong was in Monday
from Wendell Township.
G. W. Friend is on the sick list and
has been threatened with fever.
W. P Sullivan went to Oakley Sunday
to get hired girl for W. W. Walker.
1t is so dry in Iowa and the east that
many cattle are being driven to Kansas
to winter.
Mr.. Waters is down from his claim in
Cheyenne county, working on the Dem
ocrat for few days.
c B. Dakin has his Office and building
neatly painted and fixed up. 1t much
improves its appearance.
DR.. Edwards has moved his Office over
the Colby Land & Mortgage Company's
Office where he will attend to all calls.
w. w. Hutchinson and family returned
from Montana last week and will remain
in Thomas county, living near Quickville,
Kan.
Mrs Miller, sister-in-law of Wallace
Miller, and two children, of Olathe, Kan,
are here visiting Mr.. John Irwin People
now.
BORN-Aug 10, 1887, to Mr.. and Mrs.
w. W. Walker, boy.
Wiley remembered the boys with the
cigars.
Mr.. E. C. Achen goes to Nebraska this
week with his wife, who is sick He will
return and be here at his public sale on
Sept. Z, 1887.
Base Ball is becoming one of the chief
topics in Colby now, and arrangements
are now on foot for several good games
with big sum to play for.
Many prominent Democrats are proph
esying that unless an extra session of
congress is held this fall financial pan
ic will take place before 1888.
Topeka might with propriety be called
the Cider City of Kansas. 1t is sold on
every corner and of it there is no end in
that otherwise temperate metropolis.
In last weeks Otterbourne items there
was mistake. One local should have
read Miss NJ. A. Hay will have a large
dasce Eall put up on the new town site"
S. W. Parrish brought in some fine
melons Monday, which he raised 4 miles
north Of Colby. He kindly remembered
us with some, for which we are grateful
Judge n. J. Adams went yesterday to
Ohio where he will remain about 60 days
and then return to Colby. The cause iof
his departure is the sickness of his wife.
Two Dartmouth boys publish the
THOMAS CAT, and the way in which they
serve up the accounts of local events
without regard to modest particulars is
astonishing. -Ness City Times.
J. B. McGonigal went to Topeka Mon
day. Mr.. McGonigal is one of the best
town boomers we have. He will see the
Santa Fe about coming to Colby on their
route to Denver
Read NJ. Donelans new "Ad" He
has leased his present stand for another
year. His store is one of the best and
most popular in the city, and all are glad
to learn that he will remain in the city
and sell goods at the Pioneer stand.
o. II. Stratton returned Monday to
Kansas, where he has con-
tract for the erection of the. large hotel
for NJ. A. Duff He tells us the town is |
booming, and that the hotel will be ready |
for occupancy in 80 days.
Grandma Sparks order that the law
requires twelve instead of six months
actual residence on homestead every |
year, has been overrufed by Secretary |
Lamar. The secretary says: "You are
wrong, granny; six months will do.-Ab-
lene Gazette
A BelOit paper reports cat with two
,wo mouths, two noses and four eyes, and |
another exchange boasts of chicken |
with four legs, but the Plainville Times |
lakes the cake by reporting wedding |
one day and birth the next in the same |
family. Kansas is hard to beat.
Colby has many barrels full of water
on the side walks at short distances !
aparts This is right as far as it goes, but
the business houses should have fire ex-
They can be got at slight
cost and nothing can replace them for